Hamper handle



June 12, 1928. 1,673,076

s. H. HUNT HAMPER HANDLE Filed April 9. 1927 Patented June -12, 1928.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SYLVESTER HENRY HUNT, OF NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, ASSIGNOR TO FARMERS MANU-FACTURING COMPANY, OF NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, A CORPORATION OF VIRGINIA.

HAMPER HANDLE.

Application filed April 9, 1927. Serial No. 182,377.

serve, when the cover is detached, as a sturdy handle for the basket, asmore fully hereinafter set forth.

In the drawing- Fig. l is a perspective View of a portion of a basketshowing my inventipn applied thereto;

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Referring to the annexed drawing by reference-characters, 5 designatesthe usual stave or splint wall of the basket, whose upper edge isclamped between a pair of hoops 6 by nails in the usual manner. Thecover is likewise constructed in the usual manner in that it includes ahoop 7 and slats 8 fastened to the top edge of the hoop 7, one of theslats extending beyond the hoop to en gage the handle.

The handle is constructed of a. single piece of wire. bent to form thehandle-loop 9 (which rests upon the topedge of the slat 8) and twodepending legs which are permanently attached to the body hoop 6. Theselegs each consist of a straight depending part 10. an inwardly-extendingpart 11 which lies upon the top edge of the double hoop 6, a dependingpart 12 lying against the inner face of the inner one of the hoops 6, anoutwardly-extending part 13 which extends through the two hoops and theintermediate stave, and a terminal part 14 which extends upwardly andlies against the outer face of the outer hoop of the parts 10 and 11,The end parts 14 are clamped hard against the outer face of the outerhoop so as thus to bind the intermediate parts of the hoops and thestavesin a strong loop formed by the parts 11, 12, 13 and 14. By havingthe terminal parts 14 on the outside, I avoid the danger of thisend-portion bruising the fruit or vegetables packed in the hamper. Theparts 11, lying upon the top edges of the body hoops, afford a solidbearing for the cover-hoop 7.wl1en the same is clamped down by the slat8 being insertedunder the handle-loop 9.

It will be understood, of course, that, as usual, one of these wirehandles will be arranged at the other side of the hamper.

What I claim as new is:

In .combination with a basket'having a hoop structure at its rimembodying two hoops clamped upon the intermediate staves, and a coverembodying a hoop and a slat having its end extended, a combinedcoverfaste'ner-and-handle consisting of a handleloop adapted to engageover the extended slat andtwo depending legs each of which bendsinwardly to lie upon the upper edge of the hoop structure. thendownwardly to lie against the inner face of the inner hoop structure,then outwardly through the two hoops and intermediate staves and finallyupwardly to lie against the outer face of the outer hoop, the hoopstructure being solidly clamped in the loop thus formed in each leg.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature.

SYLVESTER HENRY HUN T..

6, this upwardly-extendmg end terminating near the juncture

